GRAHAM — The number of candidates being considered for Alamance Community College’s next president has been narrowed to six by members of a search committee formed last year to find a successor.

The committee met on April 16 in closed session to select six candidates from a pool of 12 candidates still under consideration. ACC spokesman Ed Williams said the remaining candidates would be notified that they are still in the running.

ACC began its search for a successor to ACC President Martin Nadelman in December after Nadelman announced he would be retiring effective Oct. 1, 2013. Since then, Williams said, ACC had received inquiries from 53 applicants interested in the job from across the nation. This total was first narrowed to 29 then to 12 and then down to six candidates this week.

The names of the six were not released this week. They are to be interviewed in late May, at which time the list will be narrowed to three. The three remaining candidates will have their backgrounds checked by the N.C. Association of Community College Trustees, according to Williams.

Williams said a new ACC president would likely be selected in late June.

The 15-member search committee is made up of six members of the college’s board of trustees: Carl Steinbicker, Davy Davidson, Reid Dusenberry, Dick Fisher, Catherine Smith and Russell Wilson. Steinbicker is chairman of the board of trustees and heads the committee. The committee also includes nine members from the private sector.

The six finalists’ names will be released to the public in about 15 days, Steinbicker said.

The college’s board of trustees will interview the six candidates with faculty and staff members also having an opportunity to meet and interview the candidates as well, Williams said.

Fisher said each candidate will spend at least one day on campus during the selection process. Steinbicker said that ACC is on schedule to select a new president this summer.

“The process has gone (well),” Steinbicker said. “We have been on track for each of the steps.”